TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR FILTERING CONTENT

• US 20150012588A1
• Filed: 09/23/2014
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YAMAGISHI, Yasuaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,215,295 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus for distributing a content to a client, including: a question generation section configured to generate question information representative of a question regarding liking of a user of the client; and a transmission section configured to transmit the question information and provider side answer information in the form of a bit string representative of an answer set by a provider which provides the content to the question regarding the liking of the user to the client.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A transmission apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive or generate a questionnaire including at least one question to be answered by a user of a reception apparatus,

provide the questionnaire to the user before a content item is provided to the reception apparatus, and

provide the content item together with one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question included in the questionnaire to the reception apparatus, the one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question corresponding to filter criteria that is associated with the content item.

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

each of the at least one question is associated with a different question identifier, and

the circuitry is configured to provide the content item together with a question identifier for each question corresponding to the one or more predetermined answers.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to

generate metadata including the one or more predetermined answers as metadata of the content item, and

transmit the metadata to the reception apparatus.

5. The transmission apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit a digital television broadcast signal including the content item and the one or more predetermined answers.

6. The transmission apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the content item associated with the one or more predetermined answers is stored in a memory of the reception apparatus when the reception apparatus determines the one or more predetermined answers matches one or more answers to the questionnaire input by the user.

7. A method for distributing a content item to a reception apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving or generating a questionnaire including at least one question to be answered by a user of the reception apparatus;

providing, by circuitry of a transmission apparatus, the questionnaire to the user before the content item is provided to the reception apparatus; and

providing, by the circuitry, the content item together with one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question included in the questionnaire to the reception apparatus, the one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question corresponding to filter criteria that is associated with the content item.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein

each of the at least one question is associated with a different question identifier, and

the step of providing the content item includes providing the content item together with a question identifier for each question corresponding to the one or more predetermined answers.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

generating metadata including the one or more predetermined answers as metadata of the content item; and

transmitting the metadata to the reception apparatus.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of providing the content item comprises:

transmitting a digital television broadcast signal including the content item and the one or more predetermined answers.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein

the content item associated with the one or more predetermined answers is stored in a memory of the reception apparatus when the reception apparatus determines the one or more predetermined answers matches one or more answers to the questionnaire input by the user.

12. A reception apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive a questionnaire including at least one question to be answered by a user of a reception apparatus before a content item is provided to the reception apparatus,

generate one or more user answers to the at least one question included in the questionnaire based on user input, and

receive the content item together with one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question included in the questionnaire, the one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question corresponding to filter criteria that is associated with the content item.

13. The reception apparatus according to claim 12, wherein

each of the at least one question is associated with a different question identifier, and

the circuitry is configured to receive the content item together with a question identifier for each question corresponding to the one or more predetermined answers.

14. The reception apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured to

receive metadata including the one or more predetermined answers as metadata of the content item.

15. The reception apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured to receive a digital television broadcast signal including the content item and the one or more predetermined answers.

16. The reception apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the circuitry is configured to

perform a comparison between the one or more predetermined answers and the one or more user answers, and

store the content item associated with the one or more predetermined answers in a memory when the comparison indicates that the one or more predetermined answers matches one or more answers to the questionnaire input by the user.

17. A method for receiving a content item, comprising:

receiving a questionnaire including at least one question to be answered by a user of a reception apparatus before a content item is provided to the reception apparatus,

generating, by circuitry of a reception apparatus, one or more user answers to the at least one question included in the questionnaire based on user input, and

receiving, by the circuitry, the content item together with one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question included in the questionnaire, the one or more predetermined answers to the at least one question corresponding to filter criteria that is associated with the content item.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein

each of the at least one question is associated with a different question identifier, and

the step of receiving the content item includes receiving the content item together with a question identifier for each question corresponding to the one or more predetermined answers.

19. The method according to claim 17, further comprising:

receiving metadata including the one or more predetermined answers as metadata of the content item.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the step of receiving the content item comprises:

receiving a digital television broadcast signal including the content item and the one or more predetermined answers.

21. The method according to claim 20, further comprising:

performing a comparison between the one or more predetermined answers and the one or more user answers, and

storing the content item associated with the one or more predetermined answers in a memory when the comparison indicates that the one or more predetermined answers matches one or more answers to the questionnaire input by the user.